How to describe landscape painting?
Virginia Hein writes about 'capturing a sense of place' in her book - 'Landscapes'. Is it always about just the depiction of natural scenery? Can made made structures be included? Should it always include a foreground, middleground and background? Can a view of an urban area be considered as just another form of landscape? What is the most important element of a landscape painting? Some questions to discuss. I'm sure we have many different views about landscape painting.
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After reading the book from Nan Shepherd, "The living Mountain" I knew I must observe nature more. And indulge it more.
Like Nan does.
“The air is part of the mountain, which does not come to an end with its rock and its soil. It has its own air; and it is to the quality of its air that is due the endless diversity of its colourings. Brown for the most part in themselves, as soon as we see them clothed in air the hills become blue. Every shade of blue, from opalescent milky-white to indigo, is there. They are most opulently blue when rain is in the air. Then the gullies are violet. Gentian and delphinium hues, with fire in them, lurk in the folds.”